Discussion

• @eff @eff on x

  After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn't a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵(1/5)

• @nic_carter Nic Carter on x

  @EFF no one on the planet has done more for digital inclusion than Elon Musk. X is the only remaining social platform committed to free speech. like it or not, Starlink is the biggest pro digital access technology in human history. it will bring hundreds of millions or billions o…

• @curtis_yarvin Curtis Yarvin on x

  The grim communist future is all around us. The orcs were only taking a breather. It's late in the day. Realize what it means when the centralized platform (X) is free and the decentralized one (Bluesky) is assimilated

• @marcorandazza Marc J. Randazza on x

  “We don't want to talk here because they allow other people to talk.”

• @wintonark Brett Winton on x

  @EFF “we are taking a principled stance against walled gardens of data, which is why we must leave this particular walled garden, and we must remain within these other walled gardens because people in those other walled gardens deserve to hear our message” suggests that people on…

• @bluesky @bluesky on x

  More and more organizations, publishers, and creators are abandoning legacy platforms that throttle their reach. Bluesky gives them a direct line to their audiences, without suppression or gatekeeping https://x.com/...

• @ramez Ramez Naam on x

  As a long time @EFF supporter, I'm disappointed to see this happening. EFF's mission isn't advanced by leaving the forum where many of the world's most influential people - including digital freedom fighters - converse. Twitter has its flaws. Leaving doesn't help EFF's mission.

• @zquestz Josh Ellithorpe on x

  I used to be a huge @EFF supporter, but they have changed dramatically over the years. Now they are leaving X, the primary place I would see their content, in order to support networks that are much smaller and complete ghost towns when I try to use them. Not only that, but I

• @travis4nh @travis4nh on x

  Don't let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya. (I donated to EFF 30 or whatever years ago during the Clipper Chip Era (had the EFF Tom Tomorrow posters on my cube wall), when they were actually libertarian, before they were skinsuited by hard leftist scolds)

• @danfriedman81 Daniel Friedman on x

  The @EFF is abandoning X because they say views of their posts have fallen from more than 500 million in 2018 to around 10 million last year. They imply that they are being throttled by the platform. What they aren't telling you is that their 2018 era impressions were massively

• @lindaxie Linda Xie on x

  @EFF As someone who has been a regular donor to the EFF over the years, this makes me sad. I think it's important to have the EFF's voice here to help educate others and provide info to those who need it

• @mysk_co @mysk_co on x

  We saw many known users take this step before. And many of them have already returned to X and re-activated their accounts. This isn't an endorsement for this platform; just wondering why no other platform has succeeded in replacing it.

• @dan_jeffries1 Daniel Jeffries on x

  Idiotic move by a usually great organization that I've long admired. This is just stupid nonsense.

• @burnhamdc James Burnham on x

  The electronic freedom nonprofit leaving the only platform that is fundamentally committed to free speech does not make sense. And the below thread purporting to explain this decision does not explain it. @EFF, you're welcome to call us if you'd like to discuss.

• @stephenfleming Stephen Fleming on x

  This is a childish tantrum. I thought better of EFF when I worked with them to stop the Clipper Chip. But that was a long time ago.

• @octal Ryan Lackey on x

  This post (by a former EFF person that I know/friends with) is probably the best summary of what happened to EFF: https://news.ycombinator.com/ ... [image]

• @jeffjohnroberts Jeff Roberts on x

  This is sad to see. The EFF has been part of the fray for as long as I've covered tech. I'm not a fan of many of the changes on this platform, but it remains the beating heart of tech news and debates. This choice feels more cowardly or lazy than principled.

• @katiemiller Katie Miller on x

  This isn't an airport, there's no need to announce your departure.

• @vxunderground @vxunderground on x

  I don't understand this take. The EFF is leaving X because, according to them, they dislike how content is “walled” within one organization, instead emphasizing the importance of something like Mastodon and the Fediverse where you are in more control of your data. While this

• @scobleizer Robert Scoble on x

  @EFF Stupid move.

• @geoffmanne Geoffrey Manne on x

  Given the trivial costs of multihoming (at least for posting; monitoring and responding are a little more costly, but not that much) this can only be a political statement. But it's one that cuts directly against EFF's stated mission. It's just partisanship.

• @nikitabier Nikita Bier on x

  Whoever is advising @EFF on social strategy should be fired.  Their reach on their X account is 13.3x larger than on their Instagram account—and on 228x larger than their TikTok account.  If they want their foundation to have an impact on the global conversation, the only place i…

• @xfreeze @xfreeze on x

  These morons have absolutely no clue what they're talking about. they claim 𝕏 is the problem, but clearly have zero understanding of how opaque and censor-heavy the alternative platforms actually are This dramatic ‘grand exit’ thread is hilarious The truth is they just hate

• @scobleizer Robert Scoble on x

  It is true. Back then Twitter overly pushed big accounts. Since taking over X has been playing up smaller accounts a lot more. I see it in the tech world which has very little to do with politics. Although a group did leave due to that.

• @jonoringer Jon Oringer on x

  hey @EFF why don't you admit the real reason? and if you could send back the donations I made over the years that would be great.. because that $$$ clearly went to a cause i didn't support. 👋

• @binarybits Timothy B. Lee on x

  Quitting Twitter while staying on TikTok is really something.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @EFF The 𝕏 algorithm is open source and updated frequently, but you do not point to any alleged bias or suggest corrections, choosing instead to leave for platforms that everyone knows have a strong bias for political correctness, which just another way of saying “lies”. You used

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  EFF exits Twitter stage right. Good on them. I get it.

• @nic_carter Nic Carter on x

  I get it. The algo changed and it can be tricky to navigate that But it does seem like the EFF just got worse at posting [image]

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on bluesky

  The EFF is finally leaving X. It looks like I'm a trailblazer because I did this way back in 2024 and deleted my account.

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on bluesky

  Posting on X is for people who have humiliation fetishes [embedded post]

• @caulfieldtim Timothy Caulfield on bluesky

  “...X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago.”  —  @eff.org is Leaving X: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...  Increasingly, X is a place of lies, rage and hate.  Very little meaningful engagement.  I hope more media, institutions, and poli…

• @bsky.app @bsky.app on bluesky

  More and more organizations, publishers, and creators are abandoning legacy platforms that throttle their reach.  Bluesky gives them a direct line to their audiences, without suppression or gatekeeping bsky.app/profile/eff....  [embedded post]

• @karlbode.com Karl Bode on bluesky

  excellent choice!  —  ethical people, organizations, and journalists should not be using a right wing propaganda website owned by an overt white supremacist  —  I genuinely don't care what elaborate scaffolding you've constructed to justify it to yourself [embedded post]

• @OpenMediaOrg@mastodon.social @OpenMediaOrg@mastodon.social on mastodon

  Thrilled to welcome our colleagues at @eff to the “leaving X” team!  We made the same difficult choice at the start of this year, and haven't looked back once.  —  If you want genuine organic engagement with real people, Mastodon and its peers are the place to be.  —  https://www…

• r/EnoughMuskSpam r on reddit

  After almost twenty years on the platform, The Electronic Frontier Foundation is leaving X/Twitter

• r/eff r on reddit

  EFF is Leaving X

• r/pwnhub r on reddit

  EFF is leaving X

• r/musked r on reddit

  EFF is Leaving X

• r/BlueskySocial r on reddit

  EFF is Leaving X

• @quackersncheese @quackersncheese on bluesky

  Why should news media and businesses leave X?  EFF has solid data from their experience:  —  “An X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet received seven years ago.”  —  techcrunch.com/2026/04/09/e...  [image]

• r/hackernews r on reddit

  EFF is leaving X